KALEIDOSCOPE

While I unpack and get back to my daily routine here are ten fun things for you to read, to make, or simply to gawk at:

Image by Liza Sokolovskaya

• what can be cuter than a KNITTED OCTOPUS?

• make LABNEH or RED FRUIT SALAD for lunch

• "fortunately, it is NOT REQUIRED FOR HAPPINESS"

• AMBER and CINNAMON inspirations

• wall art COLLAGES

• can't get enough of THIS song

• adding this BOOK to my Amazon wish list

• can I live HERE?

• famous FLOORPLANS

• my sister's post about our days in PARIS

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A year ago: LEMON CURD COFFEE CAKE

SUMMERTIME

Yesterday's tomato harvest and some of my favorite August tunes.

• Bebel Gilberto - AUGUST DAY SONG

•  Serge Gainsbourg - VIEILLE CANAILLE 

• Astor Piazzolla - LIBERTANGO 

• Caro Emerald - A NIGHT LIKE THIS and THAT MAN 

• Stephane Grappelli Quintet - MINOR SWING

My week

What a fun week it has been: lots of gardening, crafting, piano playing, and spending time with people I love.  I enjoyed creating a weekly collage last time and I am hoping to make it a habit.  So this is what my week looked like:

To capture the complete feeling of the week here is Ludovico Einaudi's DIETRO CASA that've been played a lot in our house.

xxx
Anya

Quiet Friday

It's Friday - a perfect day for lyrical songs:

• Demian Rice - THE BLOWER'S DAUGHTER

• Paul McCartney's MY VALENTINE which brings to mind

• HAKOL OVER from The Idan Raichel project

• Vinicio Capossela - NON E'L'AMORE CHE VA VIA

• OLD MELODY performed by Sainkho Namtchylak

and a FAKE BUDDHA QUOTE (I still like it, even if it's not Buddha's)

Have a perfect, sweet weekend!
Anya

 
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Previous music selections could be found HERE

Happy leap day!!!

LAURA just shared this video on Facebook - what a great song for the February 29th:

"a short darn month that won't end ... I finally love you when you are finished"


P.S. In case embedding doesn't work, here is the link: http://youtu.be/kw5UzTnVUgg

January playlist

For the past couple of days I've been a little bit low on energy so today I do not have any craft projects to share with you. Instead, here is a rather eclectic play list that I've been enjoying recently

Gorgeous calligraphy poster by Judy Dodds

• The Lost Finguers' version of PUMP UP THE JAM 

• Paris Combo's SENHOR 

• Madeleine Peyroux - GETTING SOME FUN OUT OF LIFE 

• Malouma's YARAB 

• Camille - SHE WAS and AU PORT

• Divenire album by Ludovico Einaudi (myspace page / official website) has been playing a lot in our place.  My favorite piece is MONDAY

If you want to listen to my previous play list, click here. And I would LOVE to know what music you are listening to these days.

xxx
Anya
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A year ago Anya was blogging about CLEAN AND SIMPLE HOLIDAY CARDS 

days 23 and 22

No, I didn't forget my 30 TO 30 project.  In fact, I have been working on the hard copy of it - making a little notebook to write down the"highlights" of these days.  So, on Friday I printed out some of the images I've been sharing overe here:

It is so cool to have hard copies of the images!  Since the switch to the digital medium I have never printed any of pictures but I think I will try to get into a habit of printing some of  my photos at least once a month.  One more thing to put onto my "resolution list"?

Speaking of lists, I rarely discover new music and tend to listen to the old favorite tunes over and over again (I shall not reveal when was the last time I updated my MP3 player list).  But over the last months I found some new songs/artists I enjoyed.  I decided to write those names down and get some new CDs:

• Meklit Hadero - "LEAVING SOON"
• Paolo Conte (not a new name to me but I re-discovered him last month) - "VIA CON ME"
• Mélissa Laveaux's version of "NEEDLE IN THE HAY"
• Yael Naim - "SHE WAS A BOY"
• Arvo Part is my latest musical discovery.  He is one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music.  I've been listening to some of his creations over the last two weeks and THIS ONE is my favorite (My heart is in the highlands)

Yesterday we had a visitor.  He was happy to pose for my "picture of the day".  In fact I managed to get a whole bunch of his images and since Sebka was watching him carefully I snapped several shots of the cat as well: